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The end of pandemic-era Medicaid coverage protections coincided with changes in more than a dozen states to expand coverage for lower-income people, including children, pregnant women, and the incarcerated.
The percentage of people who say theyve tried to end a pregnancy without medical assistance increased after "Roe v. Wade" was overturned. One of the most common reasons for seeking a self-managed abortion was privacy concerns.
For years, Tennessee has required anyone convicted of prostitution while HIV-positive to register as a sex offender for life. In response to DOJ and ACLU discrimination suits, the state has agreed to reverse course.
911 outages have hit at least eight states this year. Theyre emblematic of problems plaguing emergency response communications due in part to wide disparities in capabilities and funding.
Millions of Americans suffer from temporomandibular joint, or TMJ, disorders. The high cost and poor insurance coverage of TMJ care can bury patients in debt even as the treatments do more harm than good.
A Florida woman with no training in mental health services pretended to be a licensed social worker during online therapy sessions with Brightside Health patients.
Dozens of small cities and towns across the United States struggle not just with health care access and the loss of jobs, but also with the burden of what to do with big, empty buildings.
Since being diagnosed with HIV in 2022, Fernando Hermida has had to move three times to access treatment. A 窪蹋勛圖厙 News-Associated Press analysis found gay and bisexual Latino men account for a fast-growing proportion of new diagnoses and infections, showing they are falling behind in the fight against HIV.
The technology has generated notices with errors, sent Medicaid paperwork to the wrong addresses, and been frozen for hours at a time, according to state audits, court documents, and interviews. While it can take months to fix problems, Americas poorest residents pay the price.
If Indiana officials approve a proposed hospital merger in western Indiana in the coming months, the state will have its first hospital monopoly created by a Certificate of Public Advantage. Other such deals have resulted in government reports documenting diminished care in Tennessee and North Carolina.
Most states that saw enrollment in the Obamacare marketplace double from 2020 to 2024 are in the South. But the enhanced federal subsidies that attracted people with $0 premiums and low out-of-pocket costs will expire next year.
Ballad Health, a 20-hospital system in Tennessee and Virginia, benefits from the largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in the United States and is the only option for hospital care for a large swath of Appalachia.
Johns Dental Laboratories stopped making the Anterior Growth Guidance Appliance last year after a 窪蹋勛圖厙 News-CBS News investigation into allegations of patient harm. The company had never reported any complaints about its products to the FDA, according to the agency.
A new analysis shows that students graduating from U.S. medical schools were less likely to apply this year for residency positions in states with abortion bans and other significant abortion restrictions.
People across the nation claim cancer-causing emissions from local sterilizing plants are making them sick. Its an example of environmental racism, say residents of one predominantly Black area in southwest Memphis, Tennessee, where life expectancy is much shorter than county and state averages.
Florida has served as a haven for Southern pregnant women with little or no access to abortions. But the Florida Supreme Court upheld a six-week abortion restriction that begins in May so now women across much of the South seeking abortions will have to look farther afield.
窪蹋勛圖厙 News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media over the past two weeks to discuss recent stories. Heres a collection of their appearances.
A California law that takes effect this summer will grant minors on public insurance the ability to get mental health treatment without their parents consent, a privilege that their peers with private insurance have had for years. But the law has become a flashpoint in the states culture wars.
Ballad Health was granted the nations largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in 2018. Since then, its emergency rooms have become more than three times as slow.
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